Google testing new Play Store layout for Android system apps. These listings are less detailed with limited information available. Change likely to prevent uninformed negative ratings for non-optional system apps.

Google is on a mission to make Android safer and more secure—and that all starts with Play Store. With the threat from malware still much worse than on iPhones, Google is locking down its ecosystem more than ever before. While Samsung — Android’s leading OEM — is going further and faster to do the same.

There’s already a growing number of Google Play Store apps in some Android Automotive vehicles such as the Lincoln Nautilus that we reviewed in September. It has games such as A

Google Play Store is testing a new minimal design for app listings for core system apps that could prevent review bombing. Check it out!

Google has announced a "car ready mobile apps program" that should bring a lot more apps to Android Automotive soon.

Multiple critical security vulnerabilities have been confirmed by Google and users of Android 12 through 15 are urged to update as a matter of urgency.

Google is making efforts to push more apps to the Android infotainment system without extra work from developers.

Although it hasn't specified which ones, Google has confirmed that a new wave of Android Automotive-compatible apps is coming to the Play Store next month.

Google is launching its car ready mobile apps program next month. This program, announced at I/O 2024 last year, takes existing mobile apps that are large screen compatible and makes them available to cars running Android Automotive. We don’t know which apps have been selected for the program, though.

The first entry of the year is a quiet one. Our stable Android 15 Pixel phone is still on the November 1, 2024 Google Play system update, while the latest stable version of Play services is 24.49.33. [Phone] You can find different formats on the App details page when you browse more apps.